Alistair Webster QC
Year of Call: 1976
Specialist practice areas: Serious Crime, Criminal/Civil Fraud, Regulation/Compliance
Email: awebster@furnivallaw.co.uk
Serious Crime
- R v Adetoro & others
M61 gunmen - R v Park
“The Lady in the Lake” - R v Cottage
BNP candidate charged with conspiracy to cause explosions - R v Doheny &
Adams [1997] 1 Cr. App. R. 369 (CA)
Leading authority on DNA evidence - R v O'Brien [2000]
CLR 863 (CA)
Leading authority on joinder - R v Dickinson
The longest and most complex single defendant murder case tried on the Northern Circuit - R v Crilly & others
BBC TV “Anatomy of a Crime” documentary - R v Hamer
Prosecution of the murder of 11-year old Joe Geeling - R v Connor & others
Multiple murders of a family burned to death in their own house - R v Bamford
Murder of British woman in Zimbabwe - R v Carter
Gang related shootings in Birmingham
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R v Azam
Alleged racial revenge murder in Birmingham
Criminal / Civil Fraud
- R v X
London City Bond fraud
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R v X
Operation Venison
Regulation & Compliance
- Operation Legion
7 charges of manslaughter and HSWA offences arising out of the Legionnaire’s Disease outbreak in Barrow
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Leverton v Clwyd County Council [1989] AC 706 (HL)
- Norweb v Dixon [1995] 1 WLR 636 (DC)
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R v Ellis
Teacher found guilty of manslaughter -
R v W
Successful defence of a “sand-yachter” charged with manslaughter